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Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, June Uh, 1913. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced that His Majesty the King had been graciously 



pleased to become Patron of the Society. The question of seeking the addition 



of " Royal " to the title of the Society was postponed to the October Meeting. 



The death of Lord Avebury, the oldest Fellow of the Society, was 



annoiinced, and also that of Mr. Philip de la Garde. 



Captain F. Sitwell, Wooler, Northiunbeiiand, was elected a Fellow. 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a blue variety of the ? of Rhynchites xneo- 

 virens, a form very rare in this sex. Dr. F. A. Dixey a <? and 9 of Tatochila 

 unimaculata, Rob., with a pair of T. stigmadice, Stgr., for comparison. Mr. 

 Donisthorpe, a fine series of Clavvjer longicornis, Miill., with its proper host 

 Lasius mixtus, together with the common C. testaceus, with its principal host 

 L. fiavus, for comparison, as well as three species of Acari taken at the same 

 time. Mr. W. C. Crawley, <? and 9 ? s of Anergates atratulus, Sch., taken for 

 the first time in Britain in July, 1912. Prof. Poulton called attention to the 

 resemblance in the parts of the luiderside exposed during rest between many 

 species of Melitsea and certain Palsearctic Hesperiidae, and exhibited specimens 

 illustrating this fact sent by M. Avinofif from the Trans-alai Mountains. Also 

 a 9 of the Asilid Heligmoneura brunnipes, F., and the Oncodid Physegaster 

 macidatus, Macq., sent by Dr. Seitz frojn Algeria. Also, on behalf of Dr. Seitz, 

 the Fossorial model Pepsis sapphirus. Pal. de Beauv., and two of its mimics the 

 Reduviid bug Spiniger ater, Lep. et Serv., and the Locustid Scaphura nigra, 

 Thunb., var. vigorsi, Kirby. Mr. F. Fryer, a light specimen of Taeniocampa 

 gracilis. Comm. Walker, on behalf of Dr. Perkins, a specimen of Thalpochares 

 ostrina, taken at Paignton on June 1st, apparently freshly emerged. Dr. G. D. H. 

 Carpenter, a synepigonic series of I'apilio dardanus from a parent of the 

 planemoides form. The President, a single batch of Cclastrina argiolus, some 

 of which had emerged as the autumn form last year, and the rest as the spring 

 form this spring. Dr. Jordan, several insects which had been found dead at 

 Buenos Ayres, the proboscis in each case being caiight in the tiowers of Araujia 

 albens. Also, on behalf of Dr. Seitz, the stridulating apparatiis of a Chinese 

 Noctuid chrysalis part of which is on the pupa and part in the cocoon. Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff, a simple apparatus for turning over several butterflies at once to 

 display the two sides alternately. Also a small bee with a Coleopterous larva 

 partly on and partly within its abdomen. 



The following papers were read : " On the relationship between certain 

 West African Insects, es^jecially Ants, Lepidoptera and Homoptera," by W. A. 

 Lamborn, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.E.S., with an Appendix containing descriptions 

 of New Species, by G. T. Bethune-Baker, Pres. Ent. Soc, W. L. Distant, 

 J. Hartley Durrant, and Prof. A. Newstead, F.R.S. " Supplementary notes on 

 new or little known forms of Acra;a," by H. Eltringham, M.A., F Z.S., with a 

 description of a new form of Acrsea encedon, hy Prof. E. B, Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 — Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Sec. 



